Kevin Pocock » Spotify http://www.kevinpocock.com Journalist, poet, weekend athlete Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:37:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kevin Pocock http://www.kevinpocock.com/feed-logo.png http://www.kevinpocock.com 144 400 Kevin Pocock - http://www.kevinpocock.com Midweek Music: Trains http://www.kevinpocock.com/2009/07/01/midweek-music-trains/ http://www.kevinpocock.com/2009/07/01/midweek-music-trains/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:09:18 +0000 Kevin http://www.kevinpocock.com/?p=526 Spotify, if you’ve not already tried it, is an excellent service which streams music direct from its servers, to your ears. It’s free to sign up to – if you can deal with the odd audiovert – or you can pay some money per month not to be interrupted.

The reason I’m mentioning this here is because it was access to Spotify and a recommendation by a friend of mine, a musical maestro and member of Iron Maiden’s Official tribute band, Chris Harrison, which led me to check out Procupine Tree.  The band – as a quick wiki will tell you – is a Grammy Award winning Progressive Rock band, formed in 1987 and still going strong.  Anyhow,  this week’s ‘Midweek Music’ (YouTube Pick of the Week has moved to Thursdays for now) id by that band.

Trains is the second track off of the band’s 2002 album, In Absentia, and provides a clear slice of the technical ability and honestly joyfulnoise-making the band is capable of. To be honest, I’d ignored  them for sometime, but I think they’re well worth a listen, and Trains as good a palce as any to start.

Click here to view the embedded video.


*Update* As pointed out in the comments by my good friend Ross, this is a cover. See the post above for a Porcupine Tree live version

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